Biography Website Research interests My main research interests are the area of statistical inference for molecular evolution and for trait evolution. This work involves graphical models using stochastic processes (discrete Markov processes or continuous diffusions), and developing tools for model selection, Bayesian inference, new models that capture enough realism but that remain computationally feasible in …
Website Rick Chappell Research interests Specialist in the design and analysis of clinical trials.
Biography Website Research interests Main research areas include Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Decision-Making under Uncertainty, Statistical Machine Learning and A/B Testing (aka, statistical design for online experiments), with applications to physical sciences, engineering, and industry. Prof. Chien’s work has been widely adopted by Fortune 500 companies around the world in a wide range of …
Biography Website Research interests My research interests include methodological development for complicated datasets of which closed-form models and likelihood functions are not able to fully capture the desirable and interesting features of the observations. Statistical challenges in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology (i.e., astrostatistics) are a primary focus of my work. My exoplanet astronomy research focuses …
Biography Sameer is an Assistant Professor in Statistics. Originally from Dallas, TX, he has spent the last decade on the East Coast. Prior to Wisconsin, he spent three years at a postdoc with Prof. Tamara Broderick at MIT and completed his Ph.D. and the Wharton School under the supervision of Profs. Ed George and Veronika …
Biography Before arriving to UW I was a Prager Assistant Professor (postdoctoral position) at Brown University. I finished my Ph.D in mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015. I received my Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2010. Website Research interests Broadly speaking, my main academic interests lie …
Biography Chris Geoga is an Assistant Professor in Statistics. He obtained his Ph.D. at Rutgers University under the supervision of Michael Stein in 2023, and from 2016-2022 worked in the Division of Mathematics and Computer Science at Argonne National Laboratory with Mihai Anitescu. Research interests Chris’s work is primarily focused on modeling dependence structure in …